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Pardon my ignorance, but who is an unperson here?

by shaftoe 4y ago

baggsie 4y ago
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- mtmail 4y ago
  That joke isn't helping. HN doesn't edit comments automatically. You wrote that.
  - abudabi123 4y ago
    The algorithm removed an adverb from the title string accompanying the url I submitted.
mtmail 4y ago
I only know Jamie Zawinski (one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org). Not the person, not his opinions. But he hates HN - I think - and decided to show picture of a genitalia when people click on links to his blog. He doesn't want traffic from HN and doesn't want HN users to discuss his blog posts. So his domain is blocked. [edit] I thought Foone, always good content, but they don't like HN either "I'm gonna have to email [HN] again and finally get them to just ban me from HN. this has happened too many times" https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1574140918478692352 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1574140918478692352 but seems it's not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173
- beepbooptheory 4y ago
  Foone is definitely too good and sweet for this place anyway.
- kazinator 4y ago
  > decided to show picture of a genitalia when people click on links to his blog Was this recently? I think that in modern browsers that has come to be locked down. I'm not fresh on the details, but the gist of it is that a given web page can publish a header which tells the browser what to do when users navigate away from that page. Whether to reveal that page as the origin or not. I think HN can make it impossible for a site to know that a visitor "came from" HN.
fathyb 4y ago
My guess is Michael O. Church.
- tptacek 4y ago
  That would be extremely funny. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=michael%20o.%20church&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  - fathyb 4y ago
    FWIW I don’t believe mentioning anyone gets you banned here, and that it’s more likely a low-karma alt account posting links tripped up some automated system.
    - tptacek 4y ago
      That's my take as well.
    - 0x7ce 4y ago
      They absolutely do shadowban users for having the wrong opinions here. Dang himself even admitted it to me When confronted.
      - dang 4y ago
        That doesn't sound right. Where did this happen and what did I say?

Pardon my ignorance, but who is an unperson here?

baggsie 4y ago

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mtmail 4y ago
That joke isn't helping. HN doesn't edit comments automatically. You wrote that.
- abudabi123 4y ago
  The algorithm removed an adverb from the title string accompanying the url I submitted.

mtmail 4y ago

I only know Jamie Zawinski (one of the founders of Netscape and Mozilla.org). Not the person, not his opinions. But he hates HN - I think - and decided to show picture of a genitalia when people click on links to his blog. He doesn't want traffic from HN and doesn't want HN users to discuss his blog posts. So his domain is blocked. [edit] I thought Foone, always good content, but they don't like HN either "I'm gonna have to email [HN] again and finally get them to just ban me from HN. this has happened too many times" https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1574140918478692352 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1574140918478692352 but seems it's not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32975173

beepbooptheory 4y ago
Foone is definitely too good and sweet for this place anyway.
kazinator 4y ago
> decided to show picture of a genitalia when people click on links to his blog Was this recently? I think that in modern browsers that has come to be locked down. I'm not fresh on the details, but the gist of it is that a given web page can publish a header which tells the browser what to do when users navigate away from that page. Whether to reveal that page as the origin or not. I think HN can make it impossible for a site to know that a visitor "came from" HN.

fathyb 4y ago

My guess is Michael O. Church.

tptacek 4y ago
That would be extremely funny. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=michael%20o.%20church&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- fathyb 4y ago
  FWIW I don’t believe mentioning anyone gets you banned here, and that it’s more likely a low-karma alt account posting links tripped up some automated system.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    That's my take as well.
  - 0x7ce 4y ago
    They absolutely do shadowban users for having the wrong opinions here. Dang himself even admitted it to me When confronted.
    - dang 4y ago
      That doesn't sound right. Where did this happen and what did I say?